Surgical Management of Ulcerative Colitis

I’m supposed to be giving a 10-minute talk on the surgical management of ulcerative colitis this Thursday at teaching conference, so (as always) I’m posting my presentation [.html] online in case anyone else can use it. For all statistics, I’ve included references in the primary literature when possible and references to Sabiston otherwise (the footnotes are clickable hyperlinks). You can navigate through the presentation using the arrow keys, or you can mouse over the lower right-hand corner of the slides and some controls should pop up. If you’re so inclined, pressing “t” will toggle between presentation mode and my scanty speaking notes.

This is also my first attempt at using Eric Meyer’s S5 presentation format with John Manoogian’s Glossdeck theme, and they’ve been really great so far! S5 uses a nice mix of JavaScript, XHTML, and CSS to make simple, standards-compliant presentations that can play in any modern browser. Though I haven’t experienced this yet, I’m told that the images won’t scale well at resolutions other than 1024×768. I have to say that it’s really nice to be able to write a presentation in a text editor rather than something intensely visual like PowerPoint or Keynote. Like writing LaTeX markup instead of word processing, it lets me focus on content rather than style. It’s also nice to use when I’m trying to work in little snippets throughout the day, using whatever workstation I happen to be near. As a side note, I’d originally planned to test out Google Presentations, but the site was down for a while this afternoon and the thought of a server failure during the conference almost made me pee my pants.

Update, 10 Jul 2008: This talk was well-received by a group of surgeons renowned for their merciless pimping, so you may get some mileage out of it. The meta-analysis referenced on the DALM slide was particularly good fodder for discussion.